Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.